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The God Loophole

How religious freedom for day cares can come at a high price for children

Posted inAccountability, Day Care, The God Loophole

Boy’s death renews effort to license religious day cares in Alabama

by Amy Julia Harris September 5, 2017September 5, 2017

Kamden Johnson hopped into a van at Community Church Ministries in Mobile. Hours later, the 5-year-old’s body was found dumped in a driveway.

Posted inThe God Loophole

Alabama House passes bill to increase oversight of religious day cares

by Amy Julia Harris April 21, 2017April 24, 2017

The Alabama House of Representatives resoundingly voted to increase oversight of unlicensed religious day cares, a big step for a state with the most sweeping religious exemption in the country.

Posted inAccountability, Day Care, Religion, Religion and Government, The God Loophole, U.S. Education

Child Care Safety Act would give state oversight of religious day cares

by Amy Julia Harris February 21, 2017February 22, 2017

Alabama lawmakers introduced a landmark bill to abolish a longstanding law that exempts more than 900 religious day cares from state oversight.

Posted inAccountability, The God Loophole

Alabama woman who ran dangerous day cares appears to be out of business

by Amy Julia Harris January 9, 2017June 30, 2021

For more than a decade, Deborah Stokes managed to operate a string of dangerous day cares around southern Alabama simply by claiming she ran a church. But no more.

Posted inAccountability, Day Care, Religion, Religion and Government, The God Loophole

Baptist college student says religious day cares should follow rules

by Amy Julia Harris October 21, 2016October 28, 2016

A growing online petition calls for the end of “The God Loophole,” the patchwork of laws around the country that exempt faith-based day cares from licensing rules designed to protect children.

Posted inAccountability, Day Care, The God Loophole

Florida’s religious freedoms have let notorious day care owners thrive

by Amy Julia Harris October 21, 2016June 30, 2021

Florida is one of 16 states that grants certain freedom from oversight to religious day cares.

Posted inReligion, The God Loophole

How a church avoided responsibility for its ties to a child molester

by Amy Julia Harris April 27, 2016June 30, 2021

A man who ran an Alabama day care registered under a church’s name was convicted of sexual abuse. But the state Supreme Court later ruled that the church and day care weren’t connected.

Posted inDay Care, Religion, The God Loophole

Alabama bill to license religious child cares introduced

by Amy Julia Harris April 20, 2016April 20, 2016

An Alabama lawmaker has introduced a bill to license the more than 900 religious day cares in the state that currently operate without almost no government oversight.

Posted inReligion, The God Loophole

Here’s how people are trying to protect kids at religious day cares

by Amy Julia Harris and Anna Claire Vollers April 18, 2016June 30, 2021

The federal government, several state legislatures and local health departments have decided that granting faith-based day cares too much freedom puts children at risk.

Posted inDay Care, Impact, Religion, The God Loophole

Bill to end religious exemption in Alabama to be introduced next week

by Amy Julia Harris April 14, 2016April 15, 2016

For the first time in the state’s history, an Alabama lawmaker is introducing a bill to overturn the state’s religious exemption for faith-based day cares.

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